Gladiator is loosely based on real events that occurred within the Roman Empire in 180 AD. Directed by Ridley Scott and released in 2000, it features an excellent Hollywood actor, Russell Crowe, and terrific supporting artists Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen and Richard Harris who really gave justice to their characters. ... has. The plot and acting would have not been enough to make the movie a certified classic if it had not been accompanied by its majestic cinematography. During the first battle, Scott has taken the viewers to a bloody war between the Roman army and the Germanian troop. T...

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... figure dying of a rather simplistic case of pneumonia. The movie also gives honorable mention to other vital military leaders at the time, including Robert E. Lee, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, and Winfield Scott Hancock. All of these men, including Chamberlain, who was a Lieutenant Colonel for the North, played important roles in early Confederate victories such as, the Battles of Manassas, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville ... University in Saint Louis and now the editor of The American Conservative, "This is as much his [General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson] story as it is the story ...

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... , "A Beautiful Mind," Universal's prize picture of 2002, was awarded the coveted best picture Oscar at last year's ceremony. Along with last year's award, Universal has produced 18 Oscar winning and 39 Oscar nominated movies. On the contrary, the students of Avonworth were on the mark with their choice of Warner Brothers as the best movie production studio. "Chariots of Fire," "The ... Patient," and "Casablanca," were among the 12 best picture winners for Warner Brothers. Out of the five studios I polled, Twentieth Century Fox received the most nominations and awards, 68 and 39 respectiv...

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... of the American militia as he comments "These rustics are so inept, it almost takes the honor out of victory almost." These characters are complimented by amazing costuming by Deborah Scott who also did Titanic. Deborah's amazing eye for detail helped the film earn an endorsement from The Smithsonian Institute. I enjoyed the stunning visual history a great deal. My only real complaint ... ...

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... rhetoric and exaggeration, is replaces by a more readerly text when adapted to the film medium, with the responders observing rather than experiencing the story. Appearances are one of the most influential satirical devices in both book and film; however this is approached very differently in each medium. In ... Unusual Size, appear to be unrealistic, they follow the ideas of the typical fairytale setting to increase the predictability and satire of the story. Other film techniques also help to increase the effect of certain areas. Lighting and colours help create the mood, with warm rur...

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... speed and the music, serve to inform the audience that Lockwood is lying, or at least stretching the truth. Then as we see the true life story of Lockwood, his words offer such a different image that we know him to be false. He is a representation of every actor or actress who ... The dance between the two is a metaphor for the dichotomy of the industry through the movie. This sensual and skilled dance between the two is a story of how the actor Don Lockwood is entranced by the beauty and grandeur of a Hollywood career, as the Hoofer is entranced by this woman. The ... rise from vaudevi...

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... hunger of the Tom Clancy residing deep within everyone and those battles themselves are more than enough to put to rest any fond memories of a Rambo-lover. The story spreads over a shorter breadth of time than most of the other books of the series, it begins with Aydrian as a boy in the elven valley of Andur ... inniness and progresses steadily until he finds his greatest ally, Marcalo De"Unnero, from then up until Aydrian's days as a late teen (18-19) the story progresses at a fast pace and even skips a few years, but once Aydrian rises to steal the throne of Honce-The-Bear the ... tim...

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... movies, Steve Buscemi, for example The Coen brother's typical splendid writing and directing makes "Fargo" unforgettable. Snowy North Dakota sets the scene for this maliciously amusing story of a botched kidnapping. William H Macy is a car salesman in the need of some big bucks. He hires two inept scum buckets, to kidnap his ... gag that is played on the audience is the opening sequence, with the statement of that "Fargo" is a life story true to life, where as at the end, it says that the story is purely coincidental to the extend of they totally contradict there previous statement, but t...

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... Some criticisms of Citizen Kane include; its narrative structure is unduly complicated, its technique calls attention to itself and its intellectual content is superficial. The story line in Citizen Kane is an unusual mix of flashbacks, memories, interviews, and fictional news footage. While some people criticize this unusual structure as ... unduly complicated I think that the complexity of the narrative adds to the movie. This unusual format allowed for a movie that showed the viewers a story from many different points of view and allowed us to see the causes and effects of Kanes value...

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... intention was to accurately depict the life of a famous Native American, the Walt Disney Company knowingly changed the image of Pocahontas and her story in the hopes that Americans could associate more with her character and of having a better chance at increasing their profits from movie sales and ... finishing The Rescuers Down Under" (97). His ideas, along with the help of Disney executive Peter Schneider, led to the conception of Pocahontas, a story that could meet the expectations that general audiences had of all Disney productions. While Disney executives' intentions were to shine ...

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... Renderman. The Matrix, What Dreams May Come, Titanic, Forrest Gump, Jurassic Park, Death Becomes Her, Terminator 2, and The Abyss. PIXAR has since released several feature length animations including Toy story 1 and 2, A bug's life, Monsters Inc and recently, Finding Nemo. Each movie upping the ante with regards to the advancement of computer generated animation in the film and television industry. ... making, I won't make photo realistic movies because I can use real actors for that, I use animation to do things I am unable to do in real life ."" Making of toy story documentary. Glossary...

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... expression inspires seven of his students to form the Dead Poet's Society, and forever changes their lives. This movie does a superb job of telling its story in the most truthfully humanistic way, very skillfully projects to the audience the lesson that life is meant to be lived to its fullest, we must seize ... the day and stand up for who we are, even if that means going against the conformity. The story centers around seven of Williams's character Keatings students, and tells of their eventual forming of the Dead Poet's Society. The movie follows four of the boys ... human like portra...

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... complicated. The storytelling is very straightforward, single-layered and fast-paced with its complete focus on describing another victorious journey of the great Perseus rather than guiding the viewers to a story of how a demi god, who wants to be an ordinary fisherman, tries to conquer the most terrified monster that even gods fear to save the humanity. Because of that, all ... as exactly like how they were expected, not as the consequence of the factors built up previously, making these milestones less stunning and lessen their effects. Nonetheless, even how the story was told might ...

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... unusual in the era of 1940s, to make and watch movies. Based on the real life of William Randolph Hearst, who was a powerful newspaper magnate and publisher, Citizen Kane is a story about the life of a multi-millionaire newspaper publisher, Charles Foster Kane (played by Orson Welles), who once accomplishes almost everything he deserves - he was made by his mother to deserve ... Kane returns with his fiancée Emily (played by Ruth Warrick), and the third flashback, which is from the interview with Jedediah Leland (played by Joseph Cotton), starts by the story about the first marriage of...

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... released. It has since been critically acclaimed and has become the standard by which all other productions are measured. In 1996 Baz Luhrman set out to create a different sort of story, one full of action and suspense moving at a terrific pace. This different aim has resulted in a film that is in sharp contrast to the "original" version. The two productions of ... of regret, sadness and fear, indicating he is a real person and not the cold-hearted killer as in the portrayal by Luhrman. In this way, Luhrman has produced a rather stylized story to suit his 1990's audience. One other inte...

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... all evil is money and this thesis is further exemplified when religion, power, and finances meld in this particular film, to form a partnership-like dependency upon one another. "Stigmata" is a story heavily laden with objective symbolism in regard to religion both positive and negative. "Stigmata's" major theme is the pains suffered by Christ at crucifixion as his demise created the absolution ... not enough twists and turns to supply the movie with the much needed detail (Harvey). Harry Knowles complains that the movie's focus on religion is an ambiguous one as a ghost story eclipses ...

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... be connected to life today, even though Plato wrote this piece THOUSANDS of years ago. To me there are so many interpretations that can be made of this story. After reading some information online, and discussing the reading with friends, the most common interpretation is that it stands for a journey to finding the truth ( ... that at times the truth can be very painful( just like in the movie The Matrix). This is when it becomes apparent to me that the story is teaching us that at times in our life it is hard to see the truth or the reality of life, and that it is much easier ... to jus...

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... 25; and older women (Inside a movie marketer's playbook, Tad Friend). Usually women under 25 and older women are the core audience of this type of doomed love and tragic romance story, but "Her" consists of so many elements, such as the setting of future technology and city, a failure marriage, romance between human being and virtual system, sex, betray and ... too much to its audience, leading us no expectation and little suspense. On the other hand, there is another Indian movie called "Three Idiots" by Rajkumar Hirani. The story itself is hilarious and brilliant, but because of the s...

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... for the counter-cultures, that exist in society. The novel " One flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" is narrated in first person. Chief Bromden a mentally ill Indian who ironically tells the story, since he is a mute for most of the events he is describing. However the significance that the Chief is a mute not only guides the novel but gives one insight in ... the fog machine. Flashbacks of events allow Kesey to use reality and hallucination to brilliant effect. On the other hand the movie is told in third person and while the story is focused on McMurphy, the movie is completely devoid of any...

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... Bergeron, the author, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. depicts an extreme egalitarian future for society based on the mistakes we are making today. In the story, the parents of Harrison, George & Hazel, spend the entire time watching and discussing what they see on television. Anytime a possibly intelligent thought begins to pop into George's head, he is ... ...

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... Joseph Conrad as inspiration, Francis Ford Coppola created an honest portrayal of one of the most controversial periods of time in America's history: the Vietnam war. Just as West Side Story was derived from the classic Romeo and Juliet, Coppola's interpretation of Conrad's novel is not without distinction or differences. Heart of Darkness more accurately acted as a template for any ... story involving humans behaving at a basic level. After viewing what can only be described as a thematically intense and visually striking film, it is easy for the viewer to disregard the art ... ...

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... actors, and masterful director techniques aid the movie to become an outstanding movie. Elizabeth transports the viewer into the realm of the Monarchy and has them holding their breath. The story of Elizabeth's ascendancy to the throne, the plot of the movie is full of palace plotting, attempted assassinations and executions. The movie starts with England divided by faith, Protestant vs ... all. And aided by Sir Francis she manages to kill all her enemies and ascends the throne as the "Virgin Queen". This heroic drama is portrayed as a powerful and meaningful story. The film shows the m...

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... that ultimately affects everyone around her. The film is loyal to the Filipino value of close-knit families, and thus plays around this and adds conflict to come up with a story. How Cita deals with the death of her son has destroyed her relationship with her sister, her husband, her best friend, and cannot function properly as she stays up all ... the characters. I was expecting a play at different shots, wherein close-ups would be used when Cita and Lisa have their picture taken, but Lamangan stuck to medium shots. "Sisters- is a story about two sisters, Lisa and Luisa, who are also b...

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... . Second the flashback, which is a recurrent technique in the " film noir", isn't used at all in the Scorcese's Movie for reasons of narrative structure: Taxi Driver is the linear time story of a step by step sinking of it's main protagonist. And finally the defect of the two main archetypal figures of the genre: the tough hero and the "femme fatale". Travis ... "no-noir" inspiration comes without doubts from the western. The scenario of Taxi Driver is known to have been consciously influenced by The Searcher, a John Ford's movie which tells the story of a civil war veteran, social outca...

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... same time tragic plot that fills the audience up with sympathetic and doubted feelings of the life of Truman Burbank, the main protagonist in this unique movie. It tells the story of Truman Burbank, (portrayed by Jim Carrey) a middle aged man who is completely unaware that his supposed hometown "Seahaven" is a dome and that his surroundings, even people, were ... ...

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